Legal technology, technology law and other musings

Here’s the latest collection of posts from DennisKennedy.Microblog, which is a supplement to this blog that can be found on Twitter at @dkennedyblog. I invite you to become a follower. An explanation of the microblog can be found here. Here are recent posts from the microblog:

I have a tradition on this blog of writing a post on celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday (here, here, here (especially) and here). The holiday is special to me for a number of reasons that I go into in the earlier posts on the topic and it’s one of my favorite holidays of the year.

I enjoy reading blog posts and other materials posted on the holiday, and today is no exception.

This year, instead of just thinking, “Whoo-hoo! I have the day off,” or “Hey, there’s a sale at the mall,” spend some time exploring one simple question. “What could this day mean to me?” You can do this with any special day, but since today is MLK Day, that’s a good place to start.

Curt’s four steps:

1. Explore what it means to you. 2. How does this relate to my life? 3. What action does this suggest? 4. What is the first step, and when will I take it?

In part two of this two-part series on legal technology trends, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell peer into the crystal ball to find the key trends and storylines to expect in legal technology in 2010. Will the economy keep a lid on significant developments? What role will Internet and mobile technologies play? What should lawyers, law firms and other legal organizations be putting into their strategic technology plans? In addition, Dennis and Tom make predictions about technology in general and legal technology in particular.

Tom and I boldly look into the crystal ball to highlight some key trends for 2010. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that covers the continuing role of the current economic situation on technology decisions, cloud computing and mobile technologies, real-time tech, the maturation of social media, and WIndows 7 and Office 2010. [By the way, despite what I’ve read recently on blogs and in Twitter, Dennis Kennedy definitely does NOT believe that Windows 7 will bomb in law firms. I’ll probably need to set the record straight in a blog post soon. In the meantime, you might listen to our earlier podcast on Windows 7 to get my perspectives on Windows 7. I’m also working on my annual legal tech trends article.] In our audience questions segment (we always welcome your questions for any podcast), we made a few quick predictions in couple of legal tech areas. We didn’t discuss our individual predictions in advance and I was able to catch Tom off-guard with some of my predictions. We end the podcast with our Parting Shots – practical tips you can use right away. Tom raves about LogMeIn Express, a simple screensharing application that can be used for collaboration and other things. I point people to the new iPhone App from Dragon that lets you do speech recognition through an iPhone or iPod Touch nicely illustrates the mobile and cloud computing trends we discuss in the podcast. Give our new episode a listen and let me know what you think. Show notes for the podcast are at here. And try some of the back episodes as well.THE KENNEDY-MIGHELL REPORT PODCAST IS NOW ON TWITTER. You can now follow the podcast on Twitter at @tkmreport. Just a note about the experiment we want to try with a public “wave” for the show we’ve opened up in Google Wave. If interested in joining the wave, you can either ask us to add you or, assuming you are already a Wave user, search for it in Wave using “with: public” “Kennedy-Mighell Report”. Among other things, we’ll use it as a way to gather questions for our audience Q&A segments and also use it as an experiment in how Google Wave might be used. [Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)] Follow my microblog on Twitter – @dkennedyblog. Follow me – @denniskennedyNow Available! The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Visit the companion website for the book at LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com. Twitter: @collabtools Technorati tags: legal technologypodcast2010trendscollaboration

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Dennis Kennedy is one of the most knowledgeable legal technologists you will find. - Michael Arkfeld.

Dennis Kennedy, a lawyer and legal technology expert in St. Louis, Mo., has been a significant influence in the ever-evolving relationship between lawyers and the Web. - Robert Ambrogi